The first rule of reality-soap stardom is: You do not talk about your reality-soap castmates in a way that might damage their personal brands or, God forbid, their businesses. You can scream at them, insult their spouses, spread vicious rumors behind their backs, call their designer ensembles fugly, critique the quality of their cosmetic surgery, troll them on social media, throw Skinnygirl margaritas in their faces, flip the table at their carefully orchestrated dinner parties… the options for waging a performative war on your friends—or, at least, the people who play them on TV—are endless. But the one thing you can never, ever do is damage their bottom line.

Chrishell Stause learned this lesson the hard way in the wake of Selling Sunset ’s fractious ninth season, whose reunion

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